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Cover Story Assembling life's building blocks Within five years, Blue Gene -- a supercomputer designed to run 500 times faster than today's fastest -- should be ready to solve the formidable problem of how proteins fold. In the process, it will serve as a proving ground for innovative computer architecture. Features The end of the road for Moore's Law? When the steady rate of improvement in chips winds down, IBM's innovators intend to keep computer performance advancing by others means, including multiprocessing, novel transistor designs and perhaps radically new technology. Driving e-business IBM Global Services -- the company's fastest-growing division -- is developing state-of-the-art technology with Research to enable client firms to thrive online.The automated help desk,How ebusinesses run, theory meets practice, Knowledge portals. Departments Perspective The shape of success: why IBM Research takes on ambitious projects like Blue Gene. In brief Frame and fortune , Mining trends at the help desk , Photography lessons, Fleet management made simple, Remembrance: Josef Raviv, 1934 - 1999 Solutions Forms follow functions, Workpad discovers China, Got milk of magnesia, Tracking the wild customer